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AHMEDABAD : Rajkot-based bullion trader PankajLodhiya , whose name figured in the list of black money account holders submitted by the Centre to the Supreme Court , today appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) here and submitted documents related to his banking transactions. ED sources revealed that Lodhiya reached the ED office and gave the documents to the officials. Two week ago, ED officials had questioned Lodhiya in connection with two of his overseas bank accounts as well as the possibility of black money being transferred into those accounts by him. However, Lodhiya has refuted all allegations against him about black money transfers using his overseas accounts - one in Singapore and the another in Dubai.

NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) today attached an assets estimated at Rs 62 crore of a borrower company in connection with money laundering probe in the National Spot Exchange Limited ( NSEL ) scam case. The order, under Prevention of Money Laundering (PMLA) laws, has been issued against the firm Mohan India Private Limted , which includes funds in bank accounts to the tune of Rs 59.53 crore and a land plot in Delhi worth Rs 2.08 crore. The firm is one of the largest borrowers in the businesses of this exchange, ED sources said.

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PANAJI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) today questioned Goa-based miner Radha Timblo's son Chetan in connection with a money laundering probe against him and his mining firm. Radha Timblo's name had figured in the blackmoney list submitted by the government in the Supreme Court recently. "Chetan Timblo was grilled by the investigating officer of the case for over seven hours at the ED office here. His statement has been recorded," agency sources said. They said the investigating officer of the case has asked Chetan to submit additional documents related to his personal and professional financial dealings and has been summoned again in the case on December 17. The central probe agency had earlier questioned Radha Timblo in the same case and sought details about her and her mining company-- Timblo Private Limited.

HYDERABAD: The Enforcement Directorate today attached fixed deposits, plots and other assets worth Rs 96 crore in total in connection with probe related to APIIC-Emaar township project. CBI has filed a chargesheet alleging that Emaar Hills Township Private Limited (EHTPL) and others took excess money in cash for plots in EHTPL, without showing that on account books, and did not share this revenue with Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation, its JV partner.

NEW DELHI: ED has given a clean chit and dropped charges of forex violations against Tibetan religious leader Ogyen Trinley Dorjee , four years after the Karmapa and his associates were charged with keeping illegal foreign and domestic currency worth about Rs 6 crore. Enforcement Directorate (ED) has, however, ordered confiscation of the foreign currency haul which totals at over Rs 5.97 crore and includes a horde of foreign currency. The agency had taken over the case a few months after Himachal Pradesh Police intercepted a vehicle in January, 2011, and seized suspected cash from the Karmapa's associates and later from his monastery.

KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate has frozen 30 bank accounts belonging to Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Srinjoy Bose, who was arrested today, and an artist close to the ruling party in West Bengal under money laundering laws in connection with the Saradha chitfund probe case . The agency froze four accounts of Bose including three personal accounts in different private banks and a professional account of a literary publication he...

NEW DELHI: A top ED official today told a special court that Dynamix Realty, facing trial in a 2G scam- related money laundering case, was controlled by Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka and it was involved in inflow of Rs 209.25 crore proceeds of crime in DMK-run Kalaignar TV. Deposing as a prosecution witness in the case, Enforcement Directorate's (ED) Joint Director Himanshu Kumar Lal submitted before Special CBI Judge O P Saini that Dynamix Realty was involved in arranging the proceeds of crime on behalf of Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd (STPL)

NEW DELHI: DMK chief M Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Ammal was involved in "acquisition" of proceeds of crime while his daughter Kanimozhi was associated in "parking" the money in Kalaignar TV, ED's top official today told the Special 2G court. Deposing as a prosecution witness in the 2G scam-related money laundering case, Enforcement Directorate's (ED) Joint Director Himanshu Kumar Lal told Special CBI Judge O P Saini that Dayalu and DMK MP Kanimozhi were party to pledging of their respective shares of Kalaignar TV (P)

PANAJI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) today issued fresh summons against Goa-based miner Radha Timblo, whose name figured in the black money list submitted by the government in the Supreme Court, and five officials of her company in connection with a money laundering probe against her firm. "A total of six officials/directors of Goa mining firm Timblo Private Limited have been issued summons today. Radha Timblo has also been summoned in the first week of December," agency sources said.